There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.
All day long and all night through, One thing only must I do: Quench my pride and cool my blood, Lest I perish in the flood.
If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.
I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.
I have a rendezvous with life.
The truth is... everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes away from someone else.